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...eight, and taught him Latin at nine. When parishioners called, Father Alger would ask, "What are you going to be, Horatio?" Horatio Jr. would stutter: "I shall be a t-teacher of the ways of God, a p-preach-er of His commandments, a wiberal thinker, a woyal citizen." Schoolmates called him "Holy Horatio...
...comment on the General Education Report received yesterday from Alvin Johnson, Director of The New School for Social Research in New York City. Known chiefly for his interest in adult education and for his so-called "University in Exile" at the New School, Johnson is an independent thinker not associated with any of the "schools" of educational thought in America today...
Mordecai Kaplan, always an unorthodox thinker, began outraging Jewish fundamentalists a decade ago by launching the "reconstructionist" movement to liberalize Hebrew doctrine. The issue last week was a newly published Sabbath
...several collaborators, is fact-packed and scholarly. Unfortunately, it is also uneven and undigested. It fails to synthesize the social philosophy which Bellamy scattered through many an article and book. But, until a better biography is written, thoughtful readers will value it for rescuing a fertile U.S. thinker from his half-forgotten reputation as a one-book...
...world's great scientists died in Moscow last fortnight. He was almost unknown in the U.S. Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky was a cosmic thinker who founded a cosmic science which he called "biogeochemistry"-the study of life against the vast background of geological time...